Links Late 2018 - 8 February 2019

Having not posted links since last August (it’s been a very busy few months), I am now resuming more regular linking. Look for them once a week or so - in the batch below, the more recent ones are on top, the rest may date back several weeks or even months.

• “Let it Spoil!”: Morocco’s Boycott and the Empowerment of ‘Regular’ Citizen | MIPA
  Mohammed Masbah.

• Iraq’s Post-ISIS Campaign of Revenge | New Yorker
  Fantastic piece by Ben Taub.

• Fake Justice: The Responsibility Israel’s High Court Justices Bear for the Demolition of Palestinian Homes and the Dispossession of Palestinians | B'tselem

• Finer points of murder | TLS
  Tom Stevenson on the recent history of political assassination

• Improving Prospects for a Peaceful Transition in Sudan | Crisis Group
  On the anti-Bashir protests.

• The View from Moscow | Diwan
  Michael Young interviews Dmitri Trenin on Russian policy in the Middle East.

• Rapping with Fanon | NYR Daily
  Adam Shatz on Frantz Fanon and Rocé's new album "Par les damné.e.s de la terre".

• Business as Usual in Western Sahara? | MERIP
  Jacob Mundy and Alice Wilson.

• Constitutional amendments submitted to Parliament could allow Sisi to stay in power until 2034 | Mada Masr
  Mada's reporting has been excellent on this.

• Report – Fighting Corruption or Protecting the Regime? Egypt's Administrative Control Authority | POMED
  Jessical Noll.

• Censored Israel lobby film starts leaking | The Electronic Intifada
  Asa Winstanley, on al-Jazeera's unreleased undercover documentary "The Lobby".

• Tracking the Trends of the Palestinian Cause Since 1967 | al-Shabaka
  Nadia Hijab and Mouin Rabbani.

• Marie Colvin — the making of a myth | FT
  Lindsey Hilsum.

• Crazy-rich Iranians face blowback at a time of sanctions and economic stress | WaPo
  Erin Cunningham.

• How the Left Should Respond to Ethnic Cleansing in China | The Nation
  Daniel Bessner and Isaac Stone Fish, on the Uighur tragedy.

• How the Private Sector Supports Authoritarians in the Arab World | LobeLog
  Charles W. Dunne.

• On the Need to Shape the Arab Exile Body in Berlin
  Amro Ali.

• Fool Britannia
  Review of Fintan O’Toole's "Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain."

• Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism
  Review of Shoshana Zuboff's "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism".

• Lessons of Defeat: Testimonies of the Arab left
  Ursula Lindsey in @the_point_mag on the work of Arwa Salih and Mustafa Khalifa

• Exhibition Revisits a Revolution Whose Legacy Is Still Uncertain
  Ursula Lindsey on an exhibition at the Bardo in Tunis

• Time to Break the Silence on Palestine | NYT
  Great to see NYT columnist Michelle Barber speak out on Palestine on MLK Day.

• Rahaf al-Qunun: 'I hope my story encourages other women to be brave and free' | World news | The Guardian

• رواق عربي | ROWAQ ARABI
  New website by Cairo Center for Human Rights Studies.

• Why Is Casablanca’s Les Abattoirs Warehouse Now Empty? - CityLab
  One of the most promising cultural spaces in Morocco languishes in a limbo

• Islam as statecraft: How governments use religion in foreign policy
  Report by Peter Mandaville and Shadi Hamid

• Egypt lawyer files case to change president’s 2-term limit
  And so it begins...

• ‘A Search for Band-Aids’: Economic Reform in Egypt
  @ursulind on a new book from @aucpress

• Is Literary Glory Worth Chasing? | NYR Daily
  Delightful text unearthed by Tim Parks.

• Congress and Saudi Arabia | LobeLog

• Exclusive: After Khashoggi murder, some Saudi royals turn against king’s favorite son

• Egypt creates new human rights watchdog - to protect itself | AP

• Who’s buying Israeli gas? A company owned by the General Intelligence Service
  Hossam Bahgat traces a network of private companies back up to the GIS, set to cash in from the deal

• Restoring Morocco’s Past | by Ursula Lindsey | The New York Review of Books
  Excellent piece by @ursulind on a nearly forgotten and truly original Moroccan film-maker and writer, Ahmed Bouanani

• Consulting Firms Keep Lucrative Saudi Alliance, Shaping Crown Prince’s Vision - The New York Times
  McKinsey, BCG, Booz Allen Hamilton involved in repression.

• Turkey Believes Prominent Saudi Critic Was Killed in Saudi Consulate in Istanbul - NYYT
  “They confirmed two things: He was killed and his body was dismembered.”

• Young, Educated, Desperate to Emigrate
  Ursula Lindsey on a new wave of frustration and migration from Morocco

• States can’t punish businesses for boycotting Israel, federal judge in Arizona says
  Great work by the ACLU.

• Can Plan B Save Libya? Here Are the Obstacles it Must Overcome
  Emadeddin Muntasser And Mohamed Fouad.

• America Needs an Entirely New Foreign Policy for the Trump Age | The Atlantic
  Peter Beinart.

• The Return to Great-Power Rivalry Was Inevitable | The Atlantic
  Thomas Wright

• Oman’s Port Strategy
  Giorgio Cafiero on the fascinating geopolitics of shipping.

• Building Fortress Europe | Cairo Review
  Parastou Hastouri on Europe's migration policies.

• The sea is the same sea | LRB
  Adam Shatz reviews Anshel Pfeffer's Bibiography

• Egypt detains former diplomat and six others after call for referendum on Sisi | MEE

• Saudi Aramco Is Said to Postpone Its Potentially Record-Breaking I. P.O. | NYT
  While it acquires SABIC.

• The Garment of Terrorism | LRB
  Azadeh Moaveni reviews books on the niqab

• All Shook Up | Carnegie
  Intissar Fakir on the boycott campaign in Morocco

• God or Man in Tunisia? | Carnegie
  Zeineb Ben Yahmed on Tunisia's COLIBE report on individual freedoms.

• Tunisie. L’égalité devant l’héritage contestée | Orient XXI
  Thierry Bresillon on Tunisia's proposed inheritance reform.

• After Deadly Raid, Pentagon Weighs Withdrawing Almost All Commandos From Niger | NYT
  And Tunisia, Cameroon, Libya and Kenya.

• Morocco’s Religious “Soft Power” in Africa: As a strategy supporting Morocco’s stretching in Africa

• Algérie : la gouvernance aux temps du choléra
  Adlene Meddi on public health and mistrust of the state